Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Northern Ohion Oracle Applications User Group 2011 General Session When: Tuesday June 21, 2011 - 3:30pm - 6:30pm Where: Oracle Corporation, 4 Summit Park Drive, Suite 350, Independence, Ohio 44131 Speakers: Maureen Bagley (Enterprise Solution Architect, Eaton Corporation) Angelina Branca (Director, Fujitsu America Incorporated) Tina Suttle (Business Information Services Manager, Diebold Inc.) Brian Lawrence (Principal Sales Consultant, Business Intelligence, Oracle Corp.)Steve...

Book Review : WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g | Eric Elzinga Oracle ACE Eric Elzinga finally gets around to reviewing the book by Matjaz B. Juric and Marcel Krizevnik. Which Development Tool Should You Be Using?? | Grant Ronald Ronald shares info about a UKOUG event next week that will help in selecting the right development tools. New Look's Award Winning Social Enterprise | Brian DirkingBrian Dirking shares some info on how UK fashion...

Webcast Series: Discover the Cloud Advantage for Databases Six-part Webcast series where you can ask questions and get best practices and advice from Oracle experts. New Open Group Guide Shows Enterprise Architects How to Maximize SOA Business Value with TOGAF | The Open Group Blog The guide’s main goal is to enable enterprises to deliver the expected business value from their SOA initiatives. Oracle Virtual Developer Day - Material now available on Demand! | Grant RonaldYou...

I recently recorded an ArchBeat Podcast featuring Helen Sun  and Karina Ishkhanova  discussing women in IT architecture. So it was an interesting bit of serendipity that I just ran across Researcher reveals how "Computer Geeks" replaced "Computer Girls", an article by Brenda D. Fink on the Clayman Institute's Gender Blog. Here's a short bit: Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us describe the archetypal computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male....

Reza Shafii, senior principal product manager for Oracle Coherence and Oracle Fusion Middleware Lifecycle, got in touch to let me know that he and co-authors Stephen Lee and Gangadhar Konduri have just published Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Architecture and Management (Oracle Press). I asked Reza to suggest a sample chapter for members of the OTN architect community who might want to take the book out for a test drive. Reza picked Chapter 3: Fusion Middleware...

Rethink SOA - A Recipe for Business Transformation | SOA World Magazine "Imagine you had the ability to create an entirely new business offering," says Bruce Tierney, "unlike anything available from your competition..." Desktop Virtualization for Contact Centers at ICMI ACCE | Oracle's Virtualization Blog Chris Kawalek shares information on this week's ICMI ACCE Conferrence & Expo in the Big Easy. Challenges aired at Health Data Initiative Forum - O'Reilly Radar | Andy Oram"A...

Data Warehouse Global Leaders Forum, Athens | John Mead Ritman Mead's John Mead shares his key take-aways from this recent Exadata-focused event. Enhance your business with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring | Capgemini "Within my latest project I had the opportunity to get acquainted with BAM," says Martijn van der Kamp,"and I’d like to share my enthusiasm about the product with you." Developing Custom Providers: HelloWorld and a Mail Provider | WebCenter PersonalizationCindy...

The trouble with APIs | Stuart Charlton "Charlton says: "The point of REST was to *eliminate* specific APIs. Not cause their proliferation." (A tip of the ArchBeat hat to William Vambenepe for sharing the link.) Chief Information Officers Council - IT Reform at the U.S. Agency for International Development "By moving to a cloud-based solution, USAID...expects to realize cost savings of nearly $20 million over the next five years." Using OIM 11g APIs in Fusion Web Applications |...

Glimpses of E-Business Suite 12.2: WebLogic Server and Online Patching | Steven Chan "There are lots of updates coming in this release," says Chan, "but from a technology stack perspective, EBS 12.2 will be notable for two things..." A first look at Oracle on Amazon RDS | Guy HarrisonHarrison says: "Using RDS, Amazon takes complete responsibility for database management providing a more complete Database As A Service (DBaaS) offering, similar to what Microsoft offers with...